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Never heard of Daniel Radcliffe? Well, you can now call him Harry Potter. Daniel Radcliffe, an 11-year-old British boy has been chosen by Warner Bros to play Harry in the upcoming movie. There will be other people in the movie, but no one seems to care. Bookwire has the Full Story.

K. B. Shaw writes:\"
On Friday, December 1st, SPECTRUM Home & School Magazine will be giving away a BRITISH FIRST EDITION copy of \"Harry Potter and The Goblet of Fire\", signed by J.K. Rowlings on July 8th at the Severn Valley Railway, Kidderminster, as part of the UK \"Hogwarts Express Tour.\" This is an unique opportunity to own this extremely scarce, highly desirable and collectable edition of Joanne Rowling\'s classic to give as a treasured Holiday gift or to keep for your own collection. Entries are free. Go to http://www.incwell.com/LanguageArts.html for details.\"

We\'re all very familiar with anti-witchcraft Harry Haters. Here\'s an article from Salon.com about a very different problem in the popular series: sexism. The article, by Christine Schoefer, is called Harry Potter\'s girl trouble, and it paints a convincing new picture of this fictional world where girls, when they are not left out, are denigrated. Please read the article before you respond! I think there\'s something to it.

Someone writes \"There are 2 very intersting letters to the editor in the augusta chronicle on harry potterOne andTwo \"

The first one is a person writing to complain about Harry in a local school.\"Potter author J.K. Rowling is doing nothing but promoting Satanism....I have read that her books are not much different than ......Don\'t these parents realize the day and age we live in and the imagination kids of today have? \"
The Second is the librarians response. \"As a conscientious media specialist and one who loves and cares about these kids, I felt it was my duty to read the book before I made any judgment calls, and I did. Tell me, Ms. Williams, as a conscientious parent, did you?

I have collected quite a few unused Harry Potter stories, so I thought I\'d just throw them all together in one big fun to read quickies collection. Read on for all sorts of exciting Harry Potter News.

CNN.com has a story about the record breaking sales online. There was an Article on how well the Harry Potter books are still selling.

\"The U.S. and British publishers of \"Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire,\" the fourth book in the series by British author J.K. Rowling, have already gone back to the presses for additional print runs.\"

\"In 1995, it was estimated that some 100,000 Americans, mostly adults, were involved in devil-worship groups. Today, more than 14 million children alone belong to the Church of Satan, thanks largely to the unassuming boy wizard from 4 Privet Drive.\" \"

The LATimes has an interesting Story on what Harry Means to librarians. Libraries around the country have been buying record numbers of the newest potter book, and it seems some librarians like what Harry is doing for the children.

\"They are using reading as a way of exciting their imaginations,\" said Lori Karns, support services manager for the Ventura County Public Library. \"They\'re having to work to make meaningful pictures, whereas TV just feeds it to them. And the language itself in Harry Potter is lots of fun.\"

J.K. Rowling (what books has she written again?) is booked to have a reading at the Skydome (seats 60,000) on October 14th. 60,000 screaming children for an author, I love it!! Canoe.ca has the story.\"We really don\'t know how many people are going to come,\" confessed Greg Gatenby, the festival\'s effusive artistic director. \"So we thought rather than book a smaller space and have either a riot or tens of thousands of disappointed fans.\"